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American Petroleum Institute v. U.S. Department of the Interior

Geography
🇺🇸 United States / District of Columbia
Year
2022
Document Type
Litigation
Part of
American Petroleum Institute v. U.S. Department of the Interior

About this case

Filing year
2022
Status
Parties stipulated to dismiss action.
Geography
🇺🇸 United States → District of Columbia
Docket number
22-1222
Court/admin entity
United States → United States Federal Courts → United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (D.C. Cir.)
Case category
Federal Statutory Claims (US) → Other Statutes and Regulations (US)
Principal law
United States → Administrative Procedure Act (APA)United States → Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA)
At issue
Challenge to the alleged failure by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to prepare and maintain a Five-Year Leasing Program for leasing federal oil and gas on the Outer Continental Shelf.
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Documents

Filing Date
Document
Type
Topics 
Beta
01/09/2024
Parties stipulated to dismiss action.
Stipulation
06/02/2023
Abeyance status report filed by the Department of the Interior.
Status Report
04/03/2023
Case held in abeyance pending the completion of agency proceedings.
Decision
03/27/2023
Joint motion for abeyance filed.
Motion
03/06/2023
Brief filed by respondents.
Brief
01/17/2023
Opening brief filed by petitioners.
Plaintiffs, a grouping of associations that represented the U.S. oil and gas industry, brought suit in the federal district court for the District of Columbia alleging that the Department of Interior failed to peform its obligations under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) to prepare and maintain a five-year leasing program for federal oil and gas leasing on the Outer Continental Shelf. Without a Program for leasing, a gap in OCS oil and gas lease sales ensued. The plaintiffs argued that the failure to adopt a Program is arbitrary and capricious, exceeds statutory authority, and unlawfully withholds or unreasonably delays required action.
Brief
08/26/2022
Petition for review filed.
Petition

Summary

Challenge to the alleged failure by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to prepare and maintain a Five-Year Leasing Program for leasing federal oil and gas on the Outer Continental Shelf.

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Group
Topics
Policy instrument
Impacted group
Just transition
Renewable energy
Fossil fuel
Greenhouse gas
Economic sector
Adaptation/resilience
Finance